Santa Fe On The Great Plains

Author : Artie Sparks
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ISBN 13 : 9781520370620
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Trail West written by Artie Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eastern part of America filled up with people from the Atlantic Coast clear to the Mississippi River in only three-hundred years of ships arriving there mostly from Europe. That kind of growth rate was expected to continue to occur with western expansion to the Great Plains and beyond there by the Washington policy makers entering the nineteenth century.They thought that it would take at least that long before the area between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast became completely populated. The process was expedited by free land and technology advancement and gold rushes. The southwest bound immigrants did have those advantages.The government's plans were flawed from the start. They misjudged the rate that settlers were moving west. Their failures were more than not adjusting to those changes in the growth rate of the population. Another major failures entailed their ability to provide peace between Americans citizens and Native Americans.The government's plans for western expansion always involved the use of army at handling all of the tedious details. The government was of course wrong with all aspects of it. The settlers had great difficulty surviving the Great plains, the three major trails and numerous other trails west. The plains and major trails to the west were patrolled by too few trained soldiers. There were not enough troops to manage anything properly in the move west.The influx of American immigrants or settlers or pioneers began at a slow pace. The big move west from the east and places in between resulted as nation acquired more and more and final reached the Pacific Ocean. The major move west started just prior to the mid nineteenth century and was over before the end of that century.There will never be anything like that western expansion ever again. The era was the greatest movement of humanity that our nation ever saw and much it look place on three major trails that were quite rough. The Santa Fe Trail provided a military supply route during the war with Mexico. Also many of the settler's journeys were on the trail. Dodge City, the wild west town and cattle rail-head, was to the east of the middle of the trail in later years.This trail to the west provided great difficulties that the settlers needed to survive illness, attacks from outlaws and angry Native Americans before they could pursue their dreams of a better life in the southern mid-west, Texas or to the west of there. This trail fed into other ones, such as the Old Spanish Trail, once the wagon trains passed Santa Fe.